Robber barons

American History Provides a Valuable Lesson on How Monopolists Use Exclusive Deals to Fortify Their Market Power

Since the Civil War, dominant firms have widely and repeatedly used exclusive agreements to exert, expand, and fortify their market power. History...

How the “Watergate Babies” Released the Beast of Monopoly Upon America

Why did Washington respond to the 2008 financial crisis by pushing even more wealth and power into the hands of the same people that...

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Corporate Governance

Dislocation, Dislocation, Dislocation: Covid, the Retail Crisis, and REITs

Mark Pilkington

In an excerpt from his new book Retail Recovery, retail expert and author Mark Pilkington explores the impact of the sector's decline...

Corporate Governance

Addressing Climate Change Must Begin with Verifiable Carbon Accounting

Robert Kaplan, Karthik Ramanna

Robert Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna propose a new approach for verifiable accounting on indirect corporate emissions that would apply to all corporations,...

Antitrust and Competition

The FTC Was Correct to Withdraw the Vertical Merger Guidelines

Steven Salop

The 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines, now withdrawn by the FTC, did not represent sound merger policy, argues Steven Salop; rather, they were...

Economic History Series

The Chicago Planning Program and the Interdisciplinary Tradition of the Chicago School

Daniel Kuehn

The Chicago Planning Program, an interdisciplinary program that operated at the University of Chicago between 1947 and 1956, is an often-neglected part...

Antitrust and Competition

Why a “Whole-of-Government” Approach is the Solution to Antitrust’s Current Labor Problem

Hiba Hafiz

For the majority of America’s regulatory history, the problem of employer monopsony was understood as a competition policy issue that required direct...